binary
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
binary
- Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions such as on or off, true or false, molten or frozen, presence or absence of a signal.
- Binary states are often represented as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- (logic) Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- (arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and calculations using the binary number system.
- Having two equally important parts; related to something with two parts.
- Two ingredients are combined in a binary poison.
- A binary statistical distribution has only two categories.
- (mathematics, programming, computer engineering) Of an operation, function, procedure
or logic gate, taking exactly two operands, arguments, parameters or inputs; having domain of dimension 2. - Division of reals is a binary operation.
- (computing) Of data, consisting coded values (e.g. machine code) not interpretable as plain or ASCII text (e.g. source code).
- He downloaded the binary distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
- (comparable) Focusing on two mutually exclusive conditions.
- He has a very binary understanding of gender.
- (arity, adicity, rank) dyadic
- (logic of binary states) Boolean
- (related to something with two parts) double, twin; see also Thesaurus:dual
- (of calculations with binary numbers) base-2
- non-binary
- (arbitrary data) ASCII, text
- binarily
- binarity
- French: binaire
- German: binär
- Italian: binario, binaria
- Portuguese: binário
- Russian: двои́чный
- Spanish: binario
binary
- A thing which can have only (one or the other of) two values.
- 2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (ISBN 0791481794), page 51:
- The correlation between warmth and cold is an internal one where the existence of one depends on and is defined by the other. Hence, the yin-yang binary as a correlative binary of light-shade or warmth-cold [...]
- 2012, Scott L. Baugh, Latino American Cinema (ISBN 0313380376):
- The “in” versus “out” of this sociological model certainly carries to the admittedly simplistic binary of “good” versus “bad” of stereotypes in fictional works and the scholarly approaches to them.
- 2012, Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee, Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (ISBN 0791481794), page 51:
- (mathematics, computing, uncountable) The bijective base-2 numeral system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (computing) An executable computer file.
- (astronomy) A satellite system consisting of two stars or other bodies orbiting each other.
- (base 2 numeral system) base 2
- (system of two stars) binary star, double star
- (computing) non-binary
- binarism (see there for more)
- French: binarité
- German: Binärsystem
- Portuguese: binário
- French: exécutable
- German: Binärcode
- Portuguese: binário
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